Meadows' Derby
Seton Hall Pirates Stay on Top as
Victory String Remains Unbroken
Ry Martin Meadows
Emerald Sportswriter
Seton Hall's unstoppable ex
press rolled on past two more ob
stacles to remain at the top in this
week’s national hoop rankings.
The all-conquering Pirates took
things easy in an 82-52 triumph
over Albright and then turned
back Villanova's challenge, 84-76,
for their 21st decision. They have
nine games left in regular season
play.
Following in the number two
spot are last year's NIT cham
pions, the LaSalle Explorers, who
disposed of a strong Eastern Ken
tucky outfit by a convincing 89
67 score, running their record to
16-2.
Washington Third
Washington’s prospective Paci
fic Coast champions took advan
tage of defeats handed to Ford
ham and North Carolina State to
advance from fifth to third. The
Huskies, boasting an 18-1 slate,
mixed business and pleasure on a
trip to Hawaii, where they notched
three victories during the week.
They nosed out Universal Motors,
66-63, after blowing a 53-33 lead
midway through the third quar
ter, but then trounced the same
team, 69-51, in a return match.
The Seattleites rounded out their
jaunt by toying with Hawaii U.,
83-55.
Up two places in fourth come
the Kansas State Wildcats, who
had their hands full with an
Iowa State squad which pre
viously had compiled an unim
pressive 6-6 record. The Wild
cats finally won Out, 81-78, for
their 10th win as against two
losses.
Two Big Ten teams, although
idled by final exams last week,
edged up in the standing. The
Indiana Hoosiers (9-2) sneaked
from seventh to fifth, while Illi
nois, also 9-2, rose from tenth to
ninth.
Western Kentucky MOves On Up
Meanwhile, Western Kentucky
soared from ninth to sixth after
twice manhandling Tampa, 117
58 and 104-56, in a home-and
fiome series which leaves no doubt
as to which is the better team.
Western, now 16-3, has lost only
to Seton Hall, Idaho and Eastern
Kentucky.
In the number seven and eight
slots, ahead of Illinois, are North
Carolina State and Fordham,
both of which fell after each
had split two contests during
the week. The Staters (17-4)
were knocked from fourth to
seventh after being upset by
Villanova, 89-81, but they coun
tered this with a 99-80 thrash
ing of Wake Forest, an Outfit
which had squeaked past them
early in the season, 51-50.
Fordham’s defeat came at the
hands of upsurging St. John’s of
Brooklyn, which rallied to win by
a 62-56 count. However, the Rams
came back to ease past Yale, 48
44, and run their mark to 14-2.
A&M Bounces Back Again
The erratic Aggies of Okla
homa A&M re-entered the top ten,
replacing Eastern Kentucky, by
plowing under Wichita, 73-59, and
squeezing past slumping Tulsa,
47-45, on a last-second basket. It
gave them 14 victories to go with
three defeats. They were ranked
11th last week.
With final exams over, a heavy
schedule of games will be played
this week, including Dayton-VV’est
ern Kentucky, LaSalle-Loyola of
Baltimore, and St. Louis-Okla
homa A&M tonight; St. Bonaven
ture-Seton Hall and Manhattan
St. John's in a Thursday double
header at New York; and Du
quesne-LaSalle, Eastern Ken
tucky-Western Kentucky, Kansas
State-Nebraska, William & Mary
: North Carolina State, Villanova
Fordham, and Loyola of Chicago
DePaul Saturday.
Here are the ratings through
Saturday's contests:
1. Seton Hall (21-0) 26. Cal. (115)
2. LaSalle (16-2) 27. West Ya. < 13-3)
3. Washington (18-1) 28. Niagara (15-2)
4. Kan. State (10-2) 29. Wake For. (115)
5. Indiana (9-2) 30. Georgetown (7-3)
6. West. Ky. (16-3) 31. Maryland (9-3)
7. N.C. St. .17-4) 32. USC (12-3)
8. Fordhani (14-2) 33. Holy Cross (8 4)
9. Illinois (9-2) 34. Davton (10-8)
10. Ok la. A&M (14-3) 35. Columbia < 10-2)
ill. L.S.l*. (14-1) 36. UCLA (12-5)
12. B.Y.U. (17-4) 37. Duquesne (11-6)
13. Louisville (14-3) 38. Navy (10-3)
14. Manhattan (11-2) 39. Conn. (10-2)
15. DePaul (15-4 ) 4o. Wayne (111)
16. East. Ky. (11-4) 41. Temple (12-5)
17. Notre Dame (11-3) 42. Minn. (9-5)
18. Tulsa (13-5) 43. Wyoming (14-6)
19. Okla. City (11-3) 44. Mich. St. (8-4)
20. Geo. Wash. (9-3) 45. Marshall (13-2)
21. Miami O. (11-3) 4t>. Toledo (9-4)
22. Seattle (17-2) 47. Yillanova (12-6)
23. Penn (11-2) 48. Rio Grande '27-0)
24. No. Car. (15-3) 49. St. Louis (9-7 >
25. Kansas (9-4) 50. Marquette (9-6)
SPORTS FARE
BASKETBALL
Wednesday. Feb. 4
3:50 Court 40 Nestor Hall A vs. Sherry
Ross A
4:35 Court 40 Merrick Hall A vs. French
Hall A
5:15 Court 40 Campbell Club A vs. Yeo
men A
TRACK
Pi Kappa Alpha vs. Sigma Phi Ep
silon.
After losing his title to George
Carpentier in 1914, Gunboat Smith
defeated Battling Levinsky in 20
rounds on Jan. 27, 1915.
Starting Guard
Mj&i&S&S'Ari
BOB HAWES, Sharpshooting
junior guard from Bend, is ex
pected to start at guard for Ore
gon in this weekend’s Idaho
tilts. Bob is an adept ball-hawk
and should give the Vandals a
lot of truble. He stands an even
six feet tall.
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Ducks Drill
On Offense,
Fast Break
By Bob Cole
Emerald SporUwritcr
Bill Borcher's fast breakinj
hoop aggregation, currently bat
tling with the sky high Idahi
quintet for second place in tb
conference race, ran through i
lengthy practice yesterday after
noon in preparation for this week
end's series with the Vandals ii
McArthur Court. The Webfoo
cagers spent most of their tinu
emphasizing offensive drills, an<
paid special attention to sharpen
ing up their fast break.
Vandals Top Rebounding
With Idaho holding a definite
edge in rebounding strength, th<
Duck crew will be expected to de
pend upon the run hard offensive
maneuvers that have been usee
extensively since the first of the
season.
Barney Holland, third among
the Oregon scorers and a start
ing guard, had his nose broken
in the Saturday contest with
OSC and it’s doubtful that he
will see any action this week
end. Bob Hawes, a capable re
serve, will be assigned the start
ing role.
uiuci piuuauic upcucia ai t i\ci.
Wegner, Chet Noe, Ed Halberg
and either Keith Farnam or Bob
Stout. Halberg was sporting an
elbow guard to protect an injury
suffered in the Saturday game,
but it shouldn't hinder his play in
the Vandal contests.
Idaho's Vandals will invade the
Igloo after a set against Oregon
State. The club from Moscow
will boast Hartley Krueger,
third in conference scoring, and
Dwight Morrison, an outstand
ing rebounder. Tom Flynn and
Harlan Melton, two regulars
who missed the first Oregon
series, are back in the Vandal
lineup.
Oregon’s frosh, who have suf
fered three straight setbacks at
the hands of Oregon State's un
defeated freshmen, are preparing
for the fourth game of the series
scheduled for McArthur Court
this Friday. The Oregonians look
ed much improved as they dropped
a hair-raising 52 to 51 decision
to the Rooks last Saturday.
Duckling Starters
An opening lineup consisting of
John Foster and Gary McManus
at the forwards, Max Anderson,
center, and Dick James and John
Keller at guards was operating
during yesterday’s practice ses
sion. Friday night the Ducklings
will be out for their tenth victory
of the campaign.
Oregon’s varsity cagers are now
in a second place deadlock with
Idaho, and are hopeful of gaining
clear cut possession of the run
nerup spot as a result of the Van
dal invasion of the Willamette
Valley.
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Sigma Chi Trounces Phi Sigs;
Sigma Nu Edges Phi Delt Crew
In intramural "A" basketball ac
tion Tuesday the strong Sigma Chi
team rolled to a convincing 49 to
29 victory over Phi Sigma Kappa.
The Sigma Chi’s jumped to an
early 4 to 1 lend and were never
seriously threatened. The three big
I scorers for Sigma Chi were Phil
• lips with 15, and Ruhlman and
> Hedgepeth with 10 apiece. High
' point man for the game, however,
l was Miller of Sigma Kappa with 17
• points. The quarter scores were
■ 12-5, 24-11, 35-17, and 49-29.
Sigma Chi (49)
Phillips, 15 .
Pollock, I .
Hedgepeth, 10 .
Johnson, 4 .
Kuhlman, 10 .
Subs: Sigma Chi
4, Griffiths 2. Phi
(29) Phi Sig Kai)
4. Harrell
0, Enright
(i. Huron
19, Miller
0, I.ackaff
Slover, Hodges
Sigma Kappa;
Allen, Deal,
ardson.
Green, Dunn, Rich
Theta Chi came from behind in
the seconil half to edge out Delta
Upsilon 23 to 10. The Theta Chi
team was sparked by Krieger with
8 points and Murray and Ongaro
with 5 and 6 points, respectively.
High point man for the D.U.’s was
Norval with only 6. The quarter
scores were 5-5, 8-9, 18-14, and
23-16.
Theta Chi (23) (16) H.C.’s
I Krieger, 8 F. 6, Norval
j Roderick, 2 .F. 4, McConnell
j Jones, 2 .C 3, Kent
Murray, 6 .<1. 0, Howard
Ongaro, 5 .G . 0, Ward
| Subs: Delta Upsilon; Bree, 3.
J Barrister Inn recorded a 24-16
win over Alpha Hall. The game at
times became very rough under the
j boards. At halftime Barrister had
a slim 12-11 lead, but in the sec- 1
ond half, they pulled away and j
! coasted to victory. The big gun in
the Barrister attack was Duncan,
; who registered 11 points. High
! point man for Alpha Hall was
Ruecker with 10 points.
Barrister (24) (16) Alpha Hall
jEgger, 0 .F . 1, McGrath
Danielson, 6 .F 3, Peterson
Duncan, 11 ..C 10, Ruecker
Baer, 2 .G 0, Wall
Thien, 5 .G 2, Cunningham
Subs: Barrister; Etten. Alpha;
Neyens.
Sigma Nu staged a late third
quarter scoring spree and held on
to a slim lead to upset Phi Delta
Theta 24-20 in “A” intramural
basketball play Tuesday afternoon.
Sigma Nu opened the scoring
race and led 7-6 at the first quar
ter mark only to have the Phi
Delts overpower them and lead 13
9 at the halftime. In the third
quarter, with the Phi Delts ahead,
Sigma Nu scored on several long
shots to surge ahead never to again
be headed. The Phi Dells were al
ways a threat, however, us Sigma
Nu led by u close 17-10 score at
the third quarter mark and 24-20
at the final gun.
High scoring honors for the
game were shared by Norval
Ritchey of Sigma Nu and Clarence
Schmer of the Phi Delta.
Bill Heath, the tall sophomore
center for the Phi Delta was in
jured early in the first quarter as
hi- was trying for a jump shot. His
injury is reported to be a very
badly ^sprained ankle.
Phi Delta (20) (21) Sigma Nu
Wagner, 5 I1' 5, Johnson
Paulas, 2 P H, Ritchey
Heath, 2 C 3, Mobley
Handle, 2 O 0, ISriot
Schmer, 8 G 2, Soderberg
Phi Kappa Psi, led by Lary
Kh-insmith and .Tames Harding
each with seven points, downed Phi
Gamma Delta. 24-11 in Tuesday
afternoon intramural play.
The game was a scene of accu
rate ball handling and numerous
fouls, although neither team lost a
man by the way of the foul route.
Phi Kappa Psi opened the scoring
and led the entire game, h ading
9-5 at the half time and heading
the Fiji’s 24-11 at the final gun.
Fiji (ID (24) Phi Psi
Goodwin, 2 F 4, Kleinsmith
Lolly, 2 ........ F .7, Haney
Jackson, 2 C 2, llall
Zener, 5 ...... G 4, Ball
Bowles, 0 G 7, Harding
Hale Kane won over Gamma
Hall by forfeit in the final of the
Tuesday afternoon Intramural bas
ketball games.
IM HANDBALL
Hale Kane won a decisive 3-0
win over Chi Psi Tuesday aft
ernoon in intramural handball
play.
IM TRACK
Alpha Tau Omega won over
Tau Kappa Epsilon by forfeit in
a scheduled intramural track
meet.
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